I purchased a house 7 years ago as a "tear down". Instead of tearing it down, I completely restored it and wrote the nomination for it to be placed on the Historic Register. I also started a Non-Profit to preserve and maintain buildings of this era (1950's). My community schedules tours of my home to raise $$$ for other community improvement projects. It was a lot of hard work, but very rewarding and more buildings of this era are now being repurposed instead of demolished.